Chapter 199 - A woman who plays it rough

Shen Mao had a large limo to come to pick them all up. Only Shen Mao and Lena would be going with the investors. Henry decided to opt-out so he can take care of the rest of the day business at the company.

When they arrived at the restaurant, they all sat down on the long table. Tyler was acting like an ecstatic teenage boy who got eat lunch with his crush.

They all ordered and as they wait for the food to arrive, instead of talking about business, they went to talk about Lena.

"CEO Shen, will your daughter be the next CEO after you?" COO Brown asked.

Shen Mao looked at Lena then back at COO Brown. But before he could reply, Lena took the initiative.

"I will not. The next CEO position will go to Henry Han. Although I won't be that, I'll make sure that I am still an active part of the company."

"Would you go for Chairman then?" COO Brown asked.

"Chairman... I don't know about that. It will depend on who I will marry in the future." Lena responded. "Afterall, I wish to be a wife and mother before all of that."

"Spoke very well. You are truly a great woman. I believe you will go great things no matter where you go."

"Thank you."

In the Shen company, the current Chairman was Grandpa Shen while the CEO was Shen Mao. A chairman leads the board of directors which was essentially a team that checks and balance with the CEO, making sure that the CEO was properly running the company.

Some companies have the chairman and the CEO as the same person. Others have the Chairman as the ex-CEO. However, for the Shen family, after Shen Mao retires, he wanted to take a break. The next Chairman would most likely be Lena or her uncle Shen Mo, who mainly runs the farm with Grandpa Shen.

Shen Mo oversees the international business of the Shen Company along with the CEO. The Shen family was not a family who think that all the power of a company must stay within the bloodline of the family.

As long as the core values and foundation of the company is respected and continue to be achieved, it does not matter who is the CEO or Chairman. However, to make sure that such a situation does not go out of hand, the Shen family still have the most shares in their company so they can decide who was the next chairman.

When the food arrived, COO Brown and Tyler battled to earn Lena's favor. Lena did not know why COO Brown was so motivated to go against a teenage boy. She could guess that COO Brown wanted to set Lena up with his own son or someone from the Sanders family.

"Miss. Shen," Tyler spoke. "You should come to visit the Huang Company sometime in City D. I'll be happy to show you around our company sometime."

COO Brown cleared his throat. "You should come to City B and visit the new head company of Cyrus. It would be a great opportunity to introduce you to CEO Sanders."

"CEO Sanders, I have heard many great things about him. I would love to meet him." Lena replied, ignoring Tyler's first offer.

"Absolutely! How about we set a date right now?"

"Now?"

COO Brown does not want to lose to the Tyler Huang. "Yes, how about the following week on Friday?"

"Sure." Lena replied.

COO Brown was happy. He turned to Shen Mao and they chatted some more about business in China. Lena glanced at Tyler who was still staring at her. She gave him another fake smiled.

"Excuse me, gentleman." Lena got up to go the restroom. When she got out, she checked her phone if she got any messaged from Kris, and she did.

Kris: How did it go?

Lena quickly replied back.

Lena: Fine -.-

Kris saw her reply and called her. Lena walked into the restroom and picked up the call.

"Hey." She spoke.

"Are you going to come back home today?" Kris solemnly asked.

Home. Lena smiled. It was like a housewife asking when her husband will come home. "I don't think I am. Possible will be staying at the Shen mansion for another day. Why?"

"I don't want to go back if you're not there... and I also don't want to go back to the Li mansion..."

"Did you get into a fight with your mom? You're suppose to be getting closer to her, Kris."

"It was not a fight, just family stuff."

"I have an idea." Lena suggested as she walked to the bathroom counter. "You can sneak to the Shen Mansion and stay with me."

"Really?" Kris' voice sounded excited.

"No. I was just kidding, we are not ---" Lena laughed over the phone but the bathroom door opened. She stopped talking but saw who walked in. "Hey! What are you doing here?! This is the women's bathroom."

"Me? Didn't you give me the stare for me to come to meet you here?" Tyler pretended to act dumb.

"I didn't give you a stare of any kind!"

"Pretty sure you were staring at me and my handsome face."

Lena quickly hung up the call and put the phone back in her bag. "You are ridiculous. Get out! I need to pee!"

Tyler put both of his hands up. "Fine." He pouted and walked out.

Lena really did need to use the bathroom. She locked the bathroom front door and then went to use the bathroom. Tyler was crazy! Why does she always attract crazy people?!

She washed and dried her hands before walking out. Lena spotted that Tyler was still waiting for her outside the bathroom door. She rolled her eyes and continued to walk past him.

He quickly pulled her hand and turned her around. Lena's body stumbled a bit from the harsh grab and pull, and she was up against Tyler's body. She quickly made an angry face and stepped back from him. She pulled her hand away from his gripped but he only tightened the hold on her.

"Mr. Huang, you better remove your hand on me before I stop pretending to be nice to you."

"Stop pretending to be nice?" He smiled at her. "I think I like the fiesty Lena more though, like when you left me in the middle of the dance floor." He pulled Lena closer to him and whispered to her. "I like... a woman who plays it rough."

"Tsk." Lena yanked her arm and swung under their grip and twisted Tyler's arm. He quickly yelped and released the grip on Lena's wrist. Lena stepped hard on his feet and turned around.

Tyler smiled and sexily bit the bottom of his lip as he watched Lena leave and went back to their private room. "I am right... She's the one."